Mumbai, replying to Saurashtra's first innings total of 643 for 4, were shot out for 214, giving the hosts a 429-run lead on the third and penultimate day of the match.

Mumbai, whose primary goal was scoring 493 runs to avoid the follow-on, after Saurashtra's skipper Jaydev Shah declared his first innings at the overnight total of 643-4, failed to get a good start and lost wickets at regular intervals to some disciplined bowling.

Only Hiken Shah, Sairaj Bahutule and No 10 batsman Usman Malvi resisted the hosts' attack, led by Balkrishna Jadeja.

Mumbai lost another three wickets in quick succession, including that of Bahutule and it seemed the visitors could not cross 150-run mark. But Usman Malvi and Dhaval Kulkarni frustrated the hosts by putting up 72 runs for the last wicket, which was the highest partnership for the visitors.

However, Malvi's brave knock came to an end when he played a casual shot to off-spinner Kamlesh Makwana and Sitanshu Kotak took brilliant catch at first slip.

Mumbai, 493 runs behind, will have to bat the final day to keep their top place in the points table intact.

For Saurashtra, Balkrishna Jadeja was the wrecker-in-chief, taking 4 for 41, while Kamlesh Makwana and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets each giving away 32 and 62 runs respectively.

Off spinner Mohnish Parmar and seamer Siddharth Trivedi today put the breaks on Delhi as Gujarat, took the all important first innings lead, bowling out the visitors for 314 in reply to their 350 on the third day of the Group A match in Valsad.

At close Gujarat, who took a 36-run first innings lead, had made 76 for no loss in their second innings, for an overall lead of 112 runs. P Panchal with 42 and Nilesh Modi with 26 were at the crease.

Delhi, who resumed the day at 199 for six still needing 152 runs to take the first innings lead, began solidly with the overnight pair of debutant Yogesh Nagar and S Narwal batting resolutely to frustrate the efforts of the Gujarat bowlers to get an early breakthrough.

The duo, who had added an unbroken 37 runs partnership for the seventh wicket, slowly but surely took their team nearer the Gujarat first innings total with Nagar bringing up his maiden fifty in his first match in the process.

The two put on 108 runs for the seventh wicket before Trivedi got the important breakthrough for the home side, when he had Sumit Narwal trapped plumb in front for a resolute 48 which came after facing 131 balls and was inclusive of five boundaries to leave Delhi on 270 for seven still needing 81 runs for the first innings lead.

Chetanya Nanda then joined Nagar and the two continued to frustrate Gujarat further, putting on 23 runs for the eighth wicket, before Nagar's marathon effort ended when he edged an outgoing delivery from Trivedi to keeper Parthiv, who made no mistake.

Nagar made 79 after facing 210 balls and his innings was inclusive of 8 fours and a six.

Mohnish then finished of the tail to end Delhi innings on 314 with C Nanda remaining not out with 25. Mohnish with four for 104 and Trivedi with 3-52 were the pick of the bowlers.

An unbroken 115-run sixth wicket stand between Ankur Kakkar (77) and Uday Kaul (50) helped a struggling Punjab, fighting to avert outright defeat, to make 256 for five at close on the third day of their Group A match against Orissa at the Railway Stadium in Bangladesh.

Trailing the hosts by 292 runs in the first innings, Punjab were tottering at 141 for five at one stage.

But Kakkar, who had so far batted for 187 minutes and hit 11 fours, and Kaul (294 minutes, four boundaries) stemmed the rot as former Test medium pacer Debasish Mohanty threatened to run through the side with a haul of four for 50.

Commencing on the overnight score of 59 for one, the visitors suffered a setback immediately as Mohanty trapped Ravi Inder Singh in front of the wicket.

Singh, who had hit eight fours in his 35, did not add to his total.

Skipper Pankaj Dharmani and opener Karan Goel then added 42 runs for the third wicket before the former was bowled by left arm spinner Dhiraj Singh for 16.

Goel fell to Mohanty's guile soon after when he was trapped leg before for 58.

He spent over four hours to compile the score which included five hits to the fence.

Punjab were still to make 37 runs to make the hosts bat again in the second innings.

Despite disappointing bowling performance of RP Singh, Uttar Pradesh were poised well to force an outright win pushing back opponent Maharashtra on largely bowlers' day of theirGroup 'B' Super League match at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur.

Conceding the first innings lead of 94, Maharashtra were struggling at 199 for seven in their second innings at the stumps against UP, who wound up their first innings at 315 after resuming from overnight score of 290 for six.

The remaining four batsmen of UP could add just 25 runs in 11.1 overs on Tuesday.

Samad Fallah of Maharashtra completed his second five-wicket haul of the season on the third day, which witnessed eleven wickets falling.

Singh, who has just been dropped from the one-day national side to make way for Irfan Pathan, was out of his elements conceding 61 runs in 19 over without troubling the Maharashtra batsmen much.

Maharashtra with just 105 runs second innings lead would try to bat as much as they could on the final day on Wednesday, where as UP will go all out for their maiden outright win of the season even with five points.